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English Pages 28 Year 1975
There's
No SuchThing
As A Dragon
by
JACK RENT
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A
DRAGON Story and
by JACK KENT Pictures
A GOLDEN BOOK
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NEW YORK
Western Publishing Company,
Inc.,
Racine, Wisconsin 53404 Copyright © 1975 by Western Publishing Company. Inc. All rights reserved. Printed In the U.SA No part of this book may be reproduced or copied In any form without written permission from the publisher. GOLDEN®, GOLDEN & DESIGN®. A GOLDEN LOOK-LOOK® BOOK and A GOLDEN BOOK® are trademarks of
Western Publishing Company.
Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-51913
ISBN 0-307-1 1841-X
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Billy Bixbee was rather surprised when he woke up one morning and found a dragon in his room. It was a small dragon, about the size of a kitten.
The dragon wagged Billy patted
its
head.
its tail
happily
when
%
Billy
went downstairs
to tell his
mother. "There's no such thing as a dragon!" said Billy's mother.
she meant
it.
And
she said
it
like
Billy went back to his room and began to dress. The dragon came close to Billy and wagged its tail. But Billy didn't pat it. If there's
no such thing as
something, it
it's silly
on the head.
to pat
Billy
washed
his face
and hands and went
down to breakfast. The dragon went along. It was bigger now, almost the size of a dog.
down at the table. The dragon sat down ON the Billy sat
This wasn't
sort of thing
much
said there
Billy's
was not usually
permitted, but there
mother could do about
was no such thing
such thing, you can't
tell it
as a dragon. to get
table.
down
it.
She had already if there's no
And off
the table.
Mother made some pancakes for Billy, but the dragon Mother made some more. But the dragon ate those, too.
ate
Mother kept making pancakes
them
until she
ran out of batter. Billy only got one of them, but he said that's all
all.
he really wanted, anyway.
Billy
went upstairs
to
brush his
teeth.
Mother
started
The dragon, who was quite as big as Mother made himself comfortable on the hall rug and
clearing the table.
by this time, went to sleep.
By
the time Billy
grown so much he
way
came back downstairs
filled
of the living room, to get to
"I didn't
the dragon had
the hall. Billy had to go around by
know dragons grew
where
his
mother was.
so fast!" said Billy.
"There's no such thing as a dragon!" said Mother firmly.
Cleaning the downstairs took
Mother all morning, what with the dragon in the way and having to climb in and out of windows to get from room to room. *>C
^^"^!
By noon
filled the house. Its head hung out the hung out the back door, and there wasn't a the house that didn't have some part of the dragon in
front door,
room
in
the dragon
its tail
it.
When the dragon awoke from his nap he was hungry. A bakery truck went by. The smell of fresh bread was more than the dragon could
resist.
The dragon
ran
down
the street after
the bakery truck.
The house went the shell on a snail.
along, of course, like
The mailman was just coming up the path with some mail for the Bixbees when their house rushed past him and headed down the street.
He
chased the Bixbees' house for a few blocks,
but he couldn't catch
it.
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When
Mr. Bixbee came home he noticed was that the house was for lunch, the first thing
gone.
Luckily, one of the neighbors
was
able to
way
it
went.
tell
him which